Methodology

Due to the automated nature of the approach, the ranking embraces some 20,000 institutions worldwide – the most extensive comparative evaluation of world universities.

At a global level the Webometrics system is probably overly generous to institutions who operate principally in English – only five institutions in the top 50 do otherwise – but at a regional level – particularly in a region where no one country has an innate advantage in English it makes for a compelling comparator. Here we have eliminated the Scholar component of the Webometrics methodology due to its overlap with our Scopus analysis and scaled the other factors up to compensate – forging this together to form a new 10% indicator.